“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.”

“Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony.”

“Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.”

“Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.”