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

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.

When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.

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

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

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!