When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.