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“In the midst of life we are in death.”
“I used to tell John my dreams, not to understand them but to get rid of them,”
“I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.”
“As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end,”
“The very language we use when we think about self-pity betrays the deep abhorrence in which we hold it… Self-pity
remains both the most common and the most universally reviled of our character defects, its pestilential destructiveness accepted as given.”
“Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served only to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.”
“Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”
“I used to tell John my dreams, not to understand them but to get rid of them,”
“I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.”
“As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end,”
“The very language we use when we think about self-pity betrays the deep abhorrence in which we hold it… Self-pity
remains both the most common and the most universally reviled of our character defects, its pestilential destructiveness accepted as given.”
“Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served only to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.”
“Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”