I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.
I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost 3 days already.
Men to be truly won must be won by truth.
Everything, as you well know. . . cannot always be sweetness and light.