Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
It is much easier to begin than to end.
Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.
We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.