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

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

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

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

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.