“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

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

“Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.”

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

“Life...was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other...The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown”