I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.