I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

almost all novels are love stories.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.