Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
“Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.”
“There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.”