"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."