Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.

Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.