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youth is a marvelous garment
confession ran in the family.
Real worship involves waiting.
Anything that consoles is fake.
Every artist is an unhappy lover.
We can only learn to love by loving.
A death is the most terrible of facts.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Most real relationships are involuntary.
Being in love is an exhausting business.
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
The very madness of the scheme protects it.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
My heart was beating like an army on the march.
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
The best thing about being God would be making the heads.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
The most interesting things are always happening behind one.
I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.