Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.