Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Lies are essential to humanity.

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.