Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

The heart does not lie.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.