Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.