Lessons are not given, they are taken.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Love is the cheapest of religions.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.