Marguerite Young

“Perhaps we are always in search of a lost paradise.”

“There is not a soul who does not have to beg for love.”

“The past is not a diminishing road, but a widening one.”

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

“Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us into something slightly different from what we were before.”

“We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.”

“For the first time, I was struck by the fact that the history of a man's life is made up of a great many things which are not part of his life at all.”

“An oceanic mythology of the self.”

“The dream is the truth.”

“A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. Occasioned by the slightest breeze, not only the writer's trousers but his skin and flesh may be seen to ripple.”

“Perhaps there is no truth, but only mystery.”

“There are, in this world, many more things that are made than are born.”