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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.”