There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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