If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world
would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.