We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.