But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, ….

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests….

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying..

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning..

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain..

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice..

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable..

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would ha….

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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 ….

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