A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.