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

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

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

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Everything is there: the love of Art.