We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notic….

Love is a reciprocal torture..

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfe….

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad..

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book..

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground..

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination..

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm..

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on….

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator..

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety..

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy..

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one….

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe thro….

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be….

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, whe….

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand we….

There are optical illusions in time as well as space..

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can n….

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present..