Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.” “In heterosexual love there's no solution. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.” “In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. “Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function.They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard.you've never seen their shape, but you feel.you suspect.they correspond to.an empty space inside you.or in the universe.” “He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.” “I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. “Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. “It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.” “The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.” “I know all one can know when one knows nothing.” “Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.” The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.” “Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.” And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.” “Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.” Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.” “The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.” “Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.”
How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.” It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. “.as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.” “You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.” “I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. One should never be cured of one's passion.” “That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. “The best way to fill time is to waste it.”