I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.