“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”

“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”

“In real love you want the other person's good.”

“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”

“My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.”

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway stationthe Gare D'Orsayand see, simultaneously, ...”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, b...”