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.

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.

The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air;...

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

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

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