Quotes
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)
"Hwi helps me. We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses."
"And look what it got you!"
"Yes, and pray that you get the same!"
"My uncle Malky use to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees."
"Your uncle Malky was a wise man."
"He was stupid! Love needs no guarantees."
"You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences."
“’Don’t fear me. Forget mystery and accept love. There’s no mystery about love. It comes from life. Can’t you feel that?’”
Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.
Brutality breeds brutality. Love breeds love.
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.
You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.
