When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.