The world belongs to the discontented.
My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.