1. “All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
2. "A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea."
3. “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
4. “Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
5. “First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
6. “Her passion is quite African; her desires are like a tornado in the desert – the desert, whose burning vastness is mirrored in her eyes – the desert, all azzure and love, with its unchanging sky and its fresh, starry nights.”
7. “If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”
8. ”It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
9. “In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
10. "Love is a game in which one always cheats."
11. “Love is the poetry of the senses.”
12. ”Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.”
13. "Music appeals to the heart, whereas writing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly, like perfume."
14. “No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
15. “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
16. “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
17. “The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”
18. “The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
19. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
20. “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
21. “There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.”
22. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
23. “Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
24. “What is art? Nature concentrated.”
25. “When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
2. "A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea."
3. “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
4. “Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
5. “First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
6. “Her passion is quite African; her desires are like a tornado in the desert – the desert, whose burning vastness is mirrored in her eyes – the desert, all azzure and love, with its unchanging sky and its fresh, starry nights.”
7. “If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”
8. ”It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
9. “In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
10. "Love is a game in which one always cheats."
11. “Love is the poetry of the senses.”
12. ”Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.”
13. "Music appeals to the heart, whereas writing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly, like perfume."
14. “No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
15. “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
16. “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
17. “The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”
18. “The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
19. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
20. “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
21. “There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.”
22. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
23. “Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
24. “What is art? Nature concentrated.”
25. “When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
