If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.