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

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.