There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is. - André Gide

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

And who shall say how many passions and how many hostile thoughts may live together in the mind of man?

Tout l'effort de l'esprit ne parvient pas à recréer cette émotion de la surprise qui ajoute au charme de l'objet une étrangeté ravissante. Le beauté du monde extérieur reste la même, mais la virginité du regard s'est perdue.