“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”

“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”

“I’d need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it’s necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work. . . . I am in a vicious circle . . .from which it is impossible to escape.”

“If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that such a girl as I am will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and good looks and pleasure by way of a variety—”

“El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar. ”

“To walk is to vegetate,to stroll is to live.”

“In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.”