On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Sad company is bad company.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.