Not to love is to cease to live.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

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

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Not to love is to cease to live.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.