Money is that thing that you work so hard to save but gets spent so easily.

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

I'll never stop wanting to kiss you," he whispered.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.