Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.

If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.

The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.