All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

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

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.