One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

I still fall for your everyday.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.