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A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.