No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.