You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
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.
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
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.