It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.