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

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

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

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.