The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.