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

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

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

“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.”

“No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.”

“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.”

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”