August is a wicked month.
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.
Jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.
Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
The reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.
We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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