Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

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

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

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.