Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

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.

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!