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 past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.