Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

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