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

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

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

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves