"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.""

"You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working.."

"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…"

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

"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."

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