"However high a mortal may set his throne, however firmly he may place upon his brow the tiara of exception that signi…"

"... Man's love is a course of drill. And we submit to it; even those whom no one loves submit—contemptible weaklings …"

"Weshalb können wir denn nicht natürlich sein? Oh, ich weiß sehr wohl, uns fehlt nur der Mut."

"Sie ahnen nicht, wie zart und rein das Leben eines jungen Mädchens ist bis zur Zeit der ersten Liebe."

""Der Glaube an einen lenkenden, strafenden Gott ist die letzte große Illusion der Menschheit, und was, wenn auch dies…"

"I had woken to the same eighteenth of November two days in a row and everything that was going on around me was happe…"

"We have grown accustomed to living with that knowledge without feeling dizzy every morning, and instead of moving aro…"

"It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is f…"

"At the post office in the rue Pareillet I felt compelled to check the date on the screen of the stamp-vending machine…"

"Often, we would simply come to the conclusion that you cannot know everything, that you have to accept some displacem…"