One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

In fact living is dying.

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 simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.