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.
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
A good book is an event in my life.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.