The Cocktail Party

“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are.”

“You will find that you survive humiliation And that's an experience of incalculable value.”

“That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost How could you understand what it is to feel old?”

“You will change your mind, but you are not free. Which cannot be reversed.”

“The one thing to do is to do nothing. Wait. … You will find that you survive humiliation and that's an experience of incalculable value.”

“We die to each other daily. That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

“I have had quite enough humiliation And then you speak your mind.”

“You're still trying to invent a personality for me Which will only keep me away from myself.”

“What is hell? Hell is oneself. And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”

“All cases are unique, and very similar to others.”

“Half the harm that is done in this world To think well of themselves.”

“It is very often that my patients Who is ill all by himself, is rather the exception.”

“There are several symptoms And one of them is an honest mind. That is one of the causes of their suffering.”

“You have come to where the word 'insult' has no meaning; And you must put up with that.”

“To men of a certain type As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.”

“The best of a bad job is all any of us make of it — Except of course the saints”

“Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.”

“I should really like to think there's something wrong with me — That would be terrible.”

“An awareness of solitude.”

“Everyone's alone — or so it seems to me. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?”

“Can we only love And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.”

“I shall be left with the inconsolable memory Why do I feel guilty at not having found it?”

“Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.”

“Two people who know they do not understand each other, And who will never understand them.”

“In a world of lunacy Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.”

“I feel it would be a kind of surrender — Put up with anything, if I might cherish it.”

“Neither way is better. To make a choice between them.”

“Those who take the other Each way means loneliness — and communion.”

“We must always take risks. That is our destiny.”

“I'd say that she suffered all that we should suffer Than the rest of us.”

“If we all were judged according to the consequences Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

“Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.”

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”