She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.