People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

What seems most likely is generally true.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.