Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. 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. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

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.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.