In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself..

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for….

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that..

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know..

The true masters of the art of living are already happy..

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline..

The object of art is to give life shape..

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it..

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth..

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless..

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law..

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by eve….

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance..

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world..

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically..

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is..

Things are beautiful if you love them..

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves..

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then….

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy..