Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.