We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.