His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep o...
As if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since hu...
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Il s’était tant de fois entendu dire ces choses, qu’elles n’avaient pour lui rien d’original. Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêteme...
Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.
I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate th...
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for
Un infini de passion peut tenir dans une minute.
Ti se nadaš da čuješ nešto više o Viktoru Igou. Šta mogu da ti o njemu kažem ? To je čovek kao i svaki drugi, sa dosta ružnim licem i dosta prostom spoljašnjošću. Ima izvaredne zube i veličanstveno če...
She no longer existed.
Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means...
Read in oreder to live
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.