To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

The more you know, the more you see

Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.