I think that's beautiful when you also find contradictions, or you find ambiguity with your character. Ambiguity is a good word in the world of art.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Gilda’s book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, “delicious ambiguity,” the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

It is good to love the unknown.

Pleasure to me is wonder — the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

In friendship and in love, one is often happier because of what one does not know than what one knows.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

4900. There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.