What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.