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?
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.