If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.