The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind..

We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power w….

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory..

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, sing….

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying..

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to ….

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are mo….

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other..

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions..

The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice….

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me..

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor,….

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think..

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expectin….

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable ….

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come..

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty..

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped..

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place..

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that a….

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them..