The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.