The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
Only death rescues us from dying.
Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.