We love only what we do not wholly possess..

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine..

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes..

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms..

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its ….

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a….

Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crow….

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds ….

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy..

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art..

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely….

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was….

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us..

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a fami….

Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer puisqu'il existe de j a' e….

On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner.….

We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if….

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop….

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price..

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond..