The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. - James Salter

When she said goodbye it was like a play ending. It was like the theater and coming out again to the streets.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...

And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.