The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
To the pure all things are pure!
We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.
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