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‘When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.’

‘“you no longer believe in anything,” ...
“That’s not quite true.”
“What do you believe in?”
“People’s suffering, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it.”’

‘Sometimes I would go so deeply to sleep on my divan that on waking I felt dazed and intensely distressed— it was as though my consciousness, rising up secretly from the darkness, were hesitating before taking flesh again.’

‘The warm physical pleasure of tears running down my cheek. What a relief! It is so tiring to hate someone you love.’

‘When you love someone, you must give the people he loves credit for being of some value.’

‘When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair.’

‘Sadness can be wept away. But the impatience of delight— it is not so easy to get rid of that.’

‘I find the newness of the landscape sparingly obvious; yet I cannot remember having seen it look otherwise.’

‘If you really want to communicate you manage, somehow or other. Not with everybody, of course, but with two or three people.’