Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

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!

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.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.