“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”

“Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.”

“A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.”

“There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.”

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

“Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.”