Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. - Marcel Proust

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside - they did not produce our beliefs, there, they do not destroy them.

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

"I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. "There is a charming quality, is there not," he said to me, "in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is, a novelist whom you will read in time to come asserts that there is no remedy but silence and shadow. And you see this, my boy, there comes in all our lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom for darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.