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.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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.
When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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 46, and have been for some time past.
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