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

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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