I had deluded myself throughout by the idea of reviving a secret love which did not exist at all.
I’m the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.
One can be too ingenious in trying to search out the truth. Sometimes one must simply respect its veiled face. Of course this is a love story.
Don’t tease me. Everything wounds me now except perfect kindness.
You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.
I am sorry,” said Monty. “I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say.
You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
I know people can be awful dooms for each other.
How hardening to the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into a bundle of struggling rags and pain.
Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.
Yet it all seemed inevitable and perhaps it was. Is it fruitless to think about the past and build up coherent pictures of how one’s life went wrong?
All dreams are sinister.
But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.
Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.
Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer’s mind.
You seem to think the past is unreal, a pit full of ghosts. But to me the past is in some ways the most real thing of all, and loyalty to it the most important thing of all.
The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.
The trouble with people nowadays is they don’t know how to do nothing.