When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

This is the century of fear.