Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

A kiss may ruin a human life

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.