One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
