Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
Lying, like license, has its degrees.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...
I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
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