Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits..

Memory is what makes us young or old..

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering..

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception..

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is..

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world..

The only true language in the world is a kiss..

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved..

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness..

The only truth is love beyond reason..

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself..

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she….

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all thos….

Great artists have no country..

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you th….

[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or ….

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have ….

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own..

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher..