Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent.

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.