It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.