Love is the cheapest of religions.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.