Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.

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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

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

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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

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