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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

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

Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Sustenance! Your health is always the best prescription.

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.