What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were? - Hannah Arendt

She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.