I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other...
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t...
For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.
Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours...
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill...
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Education is not so important as people think.