Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.