“We become moral when we are unhappy.” — Marcel Proust

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.