The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.