The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. Mrs. Dalloway
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Never Give In!
If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat. Fragments
Love ought not to make requests,” she said, “but shouldn’t make demands, either. Love must have the strength to reach certainty for itself. Then it no longer undergoes the power of attraction, but exerts it. Demian
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