. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive
It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.