The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

A kiss may ruin a human life

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.