When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.