When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

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.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.