"With the passing of the years, each neighbourhood, each street in a city evokes a memory, a meeting, a regret, a mome…"

"You can lose yourself or disappear in a big city. You can even change your identity and live a new life. You can indu…"

"She committed suicide... "Why?" "She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.""

"Hutte, for instance , used to quote the case of a fellow he called "the beach man ". This man had spent forty years o…"

"There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…"

"Has a biographer the right to suppress certain details under the pretext that he considers them superfluous? Or do th…"

"From one moment to another one can lose heart."

"He (Rigaud) the unpleasant impression that he was returning to his point of departure, to the scene of his unhappy ch…"

"Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , lik…"

"We passed the Gardens and turned down Avenue de New York. There, under the embankment trees,I had the unpleasant sens…"