Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.