A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
В самом деле, не ошибается ли тот, кто воображает, что чувства умирают и рождаются вновь? Возникнув, они живут вечно в глубине нашего сердца. Они дремлют и пробуждаются по воле случая; но навсегда ост...
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep, said de Marsay.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
True love rules especially through memory.
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.
Il ya toute une vie dans une heure d'amour.
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
Retrouver Paris! savez-vous ce que c'est, ô Parisiens?
If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.
Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking...
Elle était jolie par juxtaposition.