“We become moral when we are unhappy.”
“That translucent alabaster of our memories.”
“Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.”
“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.”
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.”
“The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
“Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.”
“People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.”
“In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.”
“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
“Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
“A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.”
“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.”
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
“A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.”
“The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.”
“People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
“There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.”