The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

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

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.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.