In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?