Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.