Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. |
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. |
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. |
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. |
No woman wants a dress that another has tossed off, but in men they aren't so choosy. |
Nous sommes peu à penser trop, trop à penser peu. (There are a few who think too much, and many who think too little) |
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book. |
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. |