When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.
Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.
Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.