After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Education is an admirable thing.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.