Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
My only books were women's looks.
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.