The fancies of wine are authentic events.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.