When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a... - Gustave Flaubert

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."