We become moral when we are unhappy. |
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. |
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. |
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. |
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. |
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. |
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two |