Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

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.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

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.

The only joy in the world is to begin.