Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.
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.
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
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.
his conscience washed clean by happiness.
What we love we may also despise.
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.
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 a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go ...
We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
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.
She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...
Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.
