You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.