Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.