Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understan...d this sickness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a ...thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which i...s so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different op...inion? Then it is a literary milieu.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capa...ble of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europe... has endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengt...hening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »