I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. Votes: 6
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent. Votes: 6
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly. Votes: 3
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship? Votes: 3
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. Votes: 2
You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. Votes: 1
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions. Votes: 1