Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.