Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

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.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.