Book: Prisoner

One should not be afraid in love, as in everyday life, that the future - and even the past - often comes true only after the future and we are not talking only about the past, which we learn about in hindsight - we are talking about the past that we have long kept in themselves and which they suddenly learned to read.

Love is an incurable disease, like diathesis or rheumatism.

Ambition, glory did not bother me. But carnal love, the joy of victory over many rivals - it was strong in me.

Perhaps we must suffer much because of man, so that in the hours of respite he rewards us with the peace that nature breathes.

It is curious that a first love, weakening the resistance of our heart, paves the way to other interests, but does not supply the us at least, taking into account the similarity of symptoms and suffering, a means for them to recover.

We live only with those whom you do not like someone forced to live with us, only to kill the intolerable love.

Jealousy is often nothing like a restless aspiration to tyranny, transferred to the sphere of love.