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.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

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

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.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.