“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

And although the strands of your soul feel weary today, your worth remains the same – you are graceful amidst pain.

The most peace I’ve ever felt was from letting you go.

Poetry is a feeling, a feeling of healing.

Feelings you could never explain. That’s what poetry is.

One breathe. One-touch. One kiss. And I feel. I feel alive.

My beloved, you feel more natural than breathing.

Authenticity feels like the glue that has put me back together I feel whole and aligned in every word.