Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death..

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything..

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory..

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her..

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if ….

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only consid….

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions..

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love..

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically..

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief..

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them..