Love
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You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.
Freedom
"You see a person with kids", she said, "and you see how happy they are to be a parent, and you�re attracted to their happiness. Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things".
The Corrections
The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.
The Corrections
I have born sensitive and so I shall die, most likely... we are what we are and not what we would want to be; don�t you think? You have to accept me as I am, as only this way I may be loved.
Correspondence (1920)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays