Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.