Music is the perfect type of art.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.