No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

No great work has ever been based on hatred or contempt... Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

None among us is authorized to despair of a single man, except after his death, which transforms his life into destiny and then permits a definitive judgment. …

Nature is still there, however. She contrasts her calm skies and her reasons with the madness of men. Until the atom too catches fire and history ends in the t…

A woman who runs off with her lover does not abandon her husband; she rids him of an unfaithful wife.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the fre…

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get i…