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

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.

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

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

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.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.