If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

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.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

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