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Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world.

Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness.

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities; one's sentimental and psychological values go out the window.

Being human beings is not a responsibility we can avoid, but we can, and do, tell an awful lot of lies in trying to fulfill it.

[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

And I know Krisztina's days and nights, her body and her soul, as well as I know my own

The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play.

One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.

Life becomes bearable only when one comes to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world.

But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.

It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative.

The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

You can even make facts lie.