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

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

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

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

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?