Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

The marriage is over

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

Never forgive at the ballot box!