One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance..

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always pr….

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality..

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires..

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness ….

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self..

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end..

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars..

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods..

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason..

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine..

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines..

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right..

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere..

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions..

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same..

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies..

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture..

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived..

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation..

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication..