If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.
There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.