For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.