One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.