one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.