Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.