This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
