Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.