“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.”

“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.”

“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.”

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

“Will power is the only tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”