The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
The end is nothing; the road is all.