When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.