Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

What is not possible is not to choose.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

Hell is other people at breakfast.