The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.