My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
There are words which cut like steel.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.