People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

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.