A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

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