To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual
possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticised thing
and to make it one's own.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with
his theme.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what
you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had
that, what have you had?
Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust
of the eyes.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.