Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.