“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”

“as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.”

“And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.”

“To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.”

“When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor.”

“After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace."Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.”

“There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life.”