All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Might I be the one I am looking for?

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.