“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.”

“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”

“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”

“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.”

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”