It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

Love is a fault; so be it.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.