“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them fades; it is because we ourselves are dying.”

"I had been mistaken in thinking that I could see clearly into my own heart."

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable"

"Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far."

"It is human to seek out what hurts us and then at once to seek to get rid of it."

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”