Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

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.

... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!