"Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness."
- André Gide
"But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so m..."
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere els..."
"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."
"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
"No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, f..."
"Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice."
"There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is."
"This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice."