“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”

“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”

“At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.”

“But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.”

“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”

“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it.”

“You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.”