"Everything filled me with the joy of being alive until my whole being seemed no more than a hovering rapture: memorie…"

"The apple trees planted in rows on the favorable hillsides heralded a splendid crop that summer; I dreamed of the ric…"

"My sole effort … was therefore systematically to revile or suppress whatever I believed due merely to past education …"

"I soon realized that what are supposedly the worst things (lying, to mention only one) are hard to do only when you h…"

"There comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass"

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."

"The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free, that is the task."

"To the man whom death’s wing has touched, what once seemed important is so no longer; and other things become so whic…"

"What interest could I take in myself, except as a perfectible being? This unknown perfection, vaguely as I imagined i…"

"You cannot be sincere and at the same time seem so."