If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

To know the world, one must construct it

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

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

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.