COLD. Healthier than heat.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)