Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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

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

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

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.