If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.