In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.