When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not

This is the lesson that history teaches repetition

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense

America is my country and Paris is my hometown