Adrienne Monnier Quotes
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.