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

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

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!

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?

Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?

Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.