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

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

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

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

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

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?

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