You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide..

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember..

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their ….

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that boun….

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds….

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano..

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism..

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno ..

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance..

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility..

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction..

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence..

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent..

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer..

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves..

The fancies of wine are authentic events..