Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
From Elizabeth Bibesco
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
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