The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

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.

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

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