No great thing happens suddenly.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.