I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

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.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

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.