“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”
“I did not have enough courage to go round to the back of the villa. I should certainly have been noticed by someone. Why in spite of this, did I have the feeling of having been there already–a long time ago? Don't we infact know in advance all the landscapes we see in our life? Can anything occur that is entirely new, that in depths of our being, we have not anticipated for a long time?”
“Sometimes is all we really have anyway, right? Nothing is always.”
“Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.”
“Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.”