Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.
But it’s not easy. I’ve been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn’t.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
