Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.