“I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

“Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing...The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires,...shall duly flame again”

“Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.”

“Dawson, like tuck was one of those rare people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings grow stronger.”

“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”