“It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.”
“The small details of life often hide a great significance.”
“One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.”
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”
“And yet, a fissure, a split world, whose significance was yet obscure, had revealed itself to me. in the dark split were seeds of dim, unknown knowledge, without labels, a neuronal web of pre-thinking.”