Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

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

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.