It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.