Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.