“In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.”
“Only the small things in life are important”
“They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“The most important things of your life can change so suddenly, so unrecoverably, that you can forget even the most important of them and their connections, you are so taken up by the chanciness of all's that happened and by all that could and will happen next.”
“The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.”