The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...