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

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.