Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Everything is there: the love of Art.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.