The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.