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.

You must render: never report.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

The only certainty is death.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.