“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.”

“Aren't you afraid you will be damned?''I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“one ages more and with more intensity in pictures than in reality.”