Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.