1. At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
2. When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
3. I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
4. (Don’t) listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.
5. If I can walk on my own, I can go wherever I like.
6. Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
7. A writer once said that it is not time that changes a man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone’s mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin. Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person’s whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.
8. Beauty changes as swiftly as the wind.
9. Humans can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
10. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
11. Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
12. I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.
13. Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
14. Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
15. And that was now her great joy: to say to reality that she didn’t need it, that she was not longer dependent on what happened in order to be happy.
16. Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn’t sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.
17. If you love another person, you don’t depend on the sex act in order to feel good.
18. The world enjoys suffering and pain. There’s sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that we don’t need to know all this in order to be happy, and yet we watch other people’s tragedies and sometimes suffer along with them.
19. I need to love–that’s all, I need to love. Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
20. Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted. Eve was afraid to follow her path without someone to help her, and so she wanted to share what she was feeling. Certain things cannot be shared. Nor can we be afraid of the oceans into which we plunge of our own free will; fear cramps everyone’s style. Man goes through hell in order to understand this. Love one another, but let’s not try to possess one another.
21. Always making plans for the future, and always being surprised by the present.
22. In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: ‘What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we’re in exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we’re far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.
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