Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basi...
How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.
Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.
Sometimes your gaze alone scares me. Sometimes I've never seen you before. I no longer know what you're doing here, in this popular seaside resort, in this dull, crowded season, where you are even mor...