Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

God does not believe in our God.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.