Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.
The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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