The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Hearts live by being wounded.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
