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

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

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

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

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

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