For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

With love one can live even without happiness.