Great artists have no country.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.