The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.
— The Mysterious Mr. Quin
Quotes About Truth
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
— Love in the Time of Cholera
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
— The Kreutzer Sonata
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
— Why I Write