The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.