Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.