Sometimes I believe there is life on other planets, sometimes I believe there is not. In either case, the conclusion is astonishing.
It is difficult for me to leave Paris because I will be separated from my friends; and it is also difficult for me to leave the field because then I will separate myself from myself.
Joseph Joubert
The love between husband and wife is a big mess. It is degrading for a man to desire the mother of his own children.
Nelson Rodrigues
Oh! don't tremble! May this look, this embrace tell you what is ineffable - abandoning yourself without fear, intoxicating yourself with a voluptuousness that must be eternal. (Faust)
Johann Goethe
To exist is to be able to forget yourself. Being someone means being able to put yourself entirely in other people's shoes and “put up with” the situation.
Gilbert Cesbron
We are so poor that the same words serve us to express the lie and the truth
Florbela Espanca