One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.