“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”

“Were young, were not monsters, no fools: well conquer happiness for ourselves.”

“Whereas I think: Im lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I dont occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period...”

“That's what children are forthat their parents may not be bored.”

“The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.”

“Its strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best of terms, yet you never once speak to them frankly and from the heart; with someone else, youve har...”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken u...”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”