Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

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.

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