He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.