Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.