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

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

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

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

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?

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