A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.