“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”

“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, ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”

“Be a good human.”

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”

“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”

“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”