We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

Novels are longer than life.

With renunciation life begins.