A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.

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

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.