The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.