I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.