Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
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.