Bekannt / Known Ding / Thing Direkt / Directly Grad / Degrees Größer / Greater Intimität / Intimacy Kann nicht / Cannot Kleiner / Lesser Nur / Only Schon seit / Since Total / Totally
The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.