Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.