Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.