“Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.”

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

“Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.”

“Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.”

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure... To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”

“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”