Talent is long patience.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.