One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.