To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.