If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.