Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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