A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.