To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.