Old age is life's parody.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.