It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Desire makes everything blossom

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

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

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.