In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.