We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.