“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.