It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.