one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.