For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.