“Madness, and then illumination.”
“He is mad.I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness. A pall.There is no illumination.”
“All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.”
“There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.”
“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright that it dazzles instead of revealing.”
“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”