I was dying when you came.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.