“This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.”

“you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing!”

“The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.”

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”

“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”