Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

Only the impossible lasts forever.