Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

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It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

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When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.

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To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

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There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

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One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.

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Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

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