A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.