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

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

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

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.

There are no ordinary cats.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.