What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

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.

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