Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.