“Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.”

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.

Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.

The only certainty is death.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

To lie about a far country is easy.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

My brother has not spoken to me in years. Something to do with Donald Trump or Jesus Christ or our horrible stepfather.

I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

At the end of the day, we’re all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

My brother’s really well-spoken.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.