It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. – Arnold Bennett
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett