Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

In fact living is dying.

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.