Quotes from a Lady of Vision
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
“Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously."
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
“I write emotional algebra.”
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
“Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.”
“I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.”
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.”
