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

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

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?

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

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

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

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