You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.