“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
“If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”