Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.
The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.