To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration..

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body..

one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very ….

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures..

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does..

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!.

When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself..

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work..

Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, an….

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally..

They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate..

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal..

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself..

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation..

... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved..

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!..

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything..

I am the most interesting book of all..

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed..

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die..