A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?
I want to be married and I want to be away from people.