I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.