Mrs Dalloway (Oxford World’s Classics)

human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetrate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning