“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”

“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”

“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.”

“Be happy.It's one way of being wise.”

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”

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