Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.