“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.”

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy”

“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.”

“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.”

“Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.”

“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”

“I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.”