In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.