I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

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