But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing
Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.