I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.