“The moral of the story is that grief, to the person of feeling, is a permanent wound, not a transient state.”
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.”
“We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.”
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”