Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.