One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.