It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
If I could, I would stop the passage of time.But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow.I shall never experience this moment again.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face.But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.
Life is a slope.As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence.We need to have around us people who think and speak.When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.