The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.