Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Saintliness is also a temptation.