A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.