The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

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

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