There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Shame has poor memory.