There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.