Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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?
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.