I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been.


Anna Wulf, in "The Golden Notebook" - The Golden Notebook (1962)

Doris Lessing Quotes

I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this:...

I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this:...

I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this:...

I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this:...