and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.