The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.
A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.