Any truth creates a scandal.
He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or...
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.