Loving a married woman is a big deal. Married men never even dreamed of such a thing.
Love is nourished by repetition, and only repetition turns a simple desire into art.
Every trial is the trial of someone's life, and every verdict is a death sentence.
It is curious that ugly women are always jealous of their husbands, and beautiful women never. Beautiful women don't care about it - they are jealous of other people's husbands.
People are in most cases quite actively interested in everything that happens in the world, except what is really worth knowing.
People always laugh at their personal tragedies - the only way to get over them.
People interest me more than their principles, but the most interesting people are people without principles.
Art people have sex, but art itself has no sex.
People have become so industrious that they have become extremely stupid.
People learn to hide their ignorance just as they smile to hide their tears.
A mask tells us more than a face.
Between a whim and eternal love the only difference is that a whim lasts a little longer.
Charity causes many sins.
The world is created by poets, for dreamers.
Fashion is such an unbearable infamy that we have to change it every six months.
We can admire a foreign language even if we cannot speak it, just as you can love a woman without knowing her closely.
We can say a lot in defense of modern journalism. By giving a voice to the uneducated, he introduces us to public ignorance.
My bad qualities are just awful. When I remember them at night, I fall asleep on the spot.
My duty consists in what I do not do on principle.
The prayer must remain unanswered, because it would no longer be a prayer, but a correspondence.
America's youth is the oldest of its traditions. She is already more than three hundred years old.
A man always wants to be a woman's first love. Women are finer in such matters. They would like to become a man's last love.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he is not in love with her.
The man who stubbornly does not want to marry becomes a permanent public temptation.
Men marry out of fatigue, women marry out of curiosity. Both are disappointed.
Men think. Women just imagine they do.
The music will be in German, you won't understand.
Musicians are a nation of irrationals. They want us to be dumb, when you want to be deaf the most.
We live in an age where only unnecessary things are necessary.
We write so much that we don't have time to think.