Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.