When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.