“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”

“... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.”

“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things hav...”

“... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.”

“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to...”

“We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensifi...”

“In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to...”