inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
Life, for me, is living among my friends.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.