“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

“But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black t...”