“And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.”

“I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.”

“Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end”

“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.”

“I confess this is an unforeseen -- unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it -- by-product of journaling: in writing down the facts of one's feelings, one might leave out facts, and one might also try to convince oneself that one's fantasy is, in fact, one's fact, or at least a fact among other facts, other facts that are, in fact, facts, making it most difficult to tell the fact from the fantasy.”

“Love is linked to the fact that in the end we know nothing about the objectthat attracts us in the Other, and that at the same time the Other knows nothingabout this object that is in him more than himself, i.e. what makes someoneattracted to him.”