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.

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.