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.

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.

But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

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.

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

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.