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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“all is the sametime has gone bysome day you comesome day you'll diesomeone has diedlong time ago.”