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!
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.
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...
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.