For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

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

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.