“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”

“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”

“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?”

“My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.”

“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”

“In real love you want the other person's good.”

“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”