Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

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