We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.