Alphonse Daudet

“Ah! Paris, Paris! It is the country of those who have no other.”

“The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another.”

“The imagination is a place where it rains.”

“You will see that the same things exist here as everywhere, the same vices and the same virtues, grown more stubborn and rooted for having been compressed in a smaller space.”

“There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain.”

“Memory is a paradise out of which we cannot be driven.”

“The first of May is a kiss of the sun.”

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”

“A book is a voyage through the mind of another.”

“The reason that so many people find it so hard to be happy is that they will see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”