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

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

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.