Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.