You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.