Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

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

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.