Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.