The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

The point is to live everything.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]