The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Jealousy devours us, we are its dish of the day. (Jalousie nous dévore. - Nous sommes son plat du jour)

Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious