We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.