“One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.”
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
“Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.”
“to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain”
“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
“Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!”