In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.