I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.