There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!