As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

Reasons get forgotten.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.