Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God