“Let us be grateful to people whomake us happy; they are thecharming gardeners who make oursouls bloom.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.”

“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time, odd.”

“With the girls, on the other hand, if the pleasure which I enjoyed was selfish, at least it was not based on the lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone and prevents us from admitting that, when we chat, it is no longer we who speak, that we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people and not of a self that differs from them.”

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”

“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”