Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Things are beautiful if you love them.