At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts..

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

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….

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

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own..

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's..

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?.

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demoli….

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

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.].

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble….

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art..

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true..

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals..

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes..

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth..

True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations….

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thin….

Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to t….

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors..