We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

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

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.