If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.