To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.