A good book is an event in my life.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.