The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.