The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.