It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.