No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

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

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.