Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.