This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.