P 118 Quotes

“Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available for my work. It is a stupid piece of clumsiness that I am so wanting in the gift of sociability, the talent for easy but at the same time recreative conversations, in which one does not exert and expend onesel”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“How strange it was, being so close to death; looking it in the face, grasping the finery of all its features.”
― Olivie Blake, La Petite Mort

“When an atmosphere grows thick enough with justifications, explanations, rationalizations, postures, and regrets, not to omit occasional hostilities, untruth disappears just as surely as truth does.”
― Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA