A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is no forgiveness in nature.