Micha

“Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Afterwards, that dinner at the Grill seemed to partake of the nature of a ritual feast, a rite from which the four of us emerged to take up new positions in the formal dance with which human life is concerned. At the time, its charm seemed to reside in a difference from the usual run of things. Certainly the chief attraction of the projected visit would be absence of all previous plan. But, in a sense, nothing in life is planned – or everything is – because in the dance every step is ultimately the corollary of the step dance, the consequence of being the kind of person one chances to be.”
― Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

“If you don't see misery you don't believe in it. You can give anyone pain from a distance.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail. That was, after all, what happened when history was written; many, if not most, of the true facts discarded.”
― Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings