“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the e...”

“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And...”

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

“He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as if he were looking at two images through the same lens, at two...”

“She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.”

“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You...”