If there is no God, everything is permitted.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.