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

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

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

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

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.