No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.