Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

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Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

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The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

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There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition sine qua non of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting, by vanishing.