It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.