I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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.

Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

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

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