A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
