The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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.

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.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.