Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.