Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.