When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.