I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Every heart has its own skeletons.
They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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