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

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

We love because we love.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.