Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
There is something indecent in words .
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
Love is desire for knowledge.
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.