Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.