Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.