“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”

“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”

“You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.”

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

“Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”

“At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.”

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

“She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”