We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

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.

You get to decide what to worship.

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

Half of the people lie with their lips

You are what you do repeatedly.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.