Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?