He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the pursuit of quotidian satisfactions, that he had come to believe, though without ever formally stating his belief even to himself that he would remain all his life in that condition, which only death could alter.

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

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

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.