The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.