If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.