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“La nostalgie se pose partout, s'arroge tout, même les souvenirs d'ennui ; on ne pleure pas tant la nature des choses disparues que leur simple perte (p. 55).”
― Arnaud Cathrine, Début de siècles

“Il prenait des notes. Qui n’étaient que d’impuissants substituts de réalité. Mais qu’il gardait. Il faut tout garder. On ne sait jamais.”
― Arnaud Cathrine, Pas exactement l'amour

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The way to live is to throw ourselves, not into faith, but into our own lives, conducting them in affirmation of every moment, exactly as it is, without wishing that anything was different, and without harbouring peevish resentment against others or against our fate.”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others