Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

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

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

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