“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

“There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”

“The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.”

“But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.”