When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
Everything is there: the love of Art.
Talent is long patience.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all