The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues.
Everything was believed except the truth.
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.
The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.
How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life.
Les hommes ont la rage de vouloir apprendre ce qui doit leur faire de la peine.
Your father embraced me once more. I felt two grateful tears on my forehead, like the baptism of my past faults, and at the moment when I consented to give myself up to another man I glowed with pride at the thought of what I was redeeming by this new fault.
Y yo la amaba tanto, que, en medio de los transportes de su amor febril, me preguntaba si no iba a matarla para que no perteneciera nunca a otro.
El amor verdadero siempre nos hace mejores; cualquiera sea la mujer que lo inspira.
Love gives one a kind of goodness.
Les femmes sont impitoyables avec les gens qu’elles n’aiment pas.
The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.
It is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for anyone to speak a language that has not been properly mastered. Since I am not yet of an age to invent, I must make do with telling a tale.
It is always difficult to console a sorrow that is unknown to one...
Men have an obsession for wanting to know things that will upset them.
Cu cat o priveam mai mult pe aceasta femeie, cu atat ma fermeca mai tare. Era de o frumusete rapitoare. Chiar si trupul ei slab mi se parea o incantare.