Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

The contact of two epidermises.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.