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

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

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

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

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

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.