When you’re in the middle of a nightmare something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best, I’ve always thought so.
What I need and what I want are two very different things.
What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don’t understand why.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
We do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change.[Nous n’arrivons pas à changer les choses selon notre désir, mais peu à peu notre désir change.]
Time ripens all things.
Though the great things of life are simple to understand and easy to express, the littlenesses require a vast number of details to explain them.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Things that are mysterious are not yet miracles.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
