“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”

“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it”

“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!”

“C'est plein de disputes, un bonheur.”

“A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.”

“Things are beautiful if you love them. ”

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”