 The only paradise is paradise lost. |
| Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. |
| What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. |
| We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. |
| It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. |
| Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. |
| Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. |
| We become moral when we are unhappy. |
| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Topics: Childhood |
| Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. |
| If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. |
| In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. |
| Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. |
| Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. |
| All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. |
