We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

What we love we may also despise.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

querer”, es sobre todo comprender.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

Bien sûr on a des chagrins d’amour, mais on a surtout des chagrins de soi-même. Finalement la vie n’est qu’une affaire de solitude.

We are born crying, and for good reason,’ he reflected. ‘And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its...

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

She said she didn’t love him, and he said it didn’t matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of...

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women’s dealings with men.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Cum, cine sunt? Sunt eu, traiesc; si traiesc asta, si merg cu 90 de kilometri pe ora in localitate, cu 110 pe drumurile nationale, cu 130 pe autostrazi, cu 600 pe ora in capul meu,...

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.