“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.”
― Dreamers
― Dreamers
“...no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it”
― The Museum of Innocence
― The Museum of Innocence
“Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.”
― Snow
― Snow
“There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.”
― Mysteries
― Mysteries
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