All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from yo… - Sarah Bernhardt

My fame had become annoying for my enemies, and a little trying, I confess, for my friends. But at that time all this stir and noise amused me vastly. I did nothing to attract attention. My somewhat fantastic tastes, my paleness and thinness, my peculiar way of dressing, my scorn of fashion, my general freedom in all respects, made me a being quite apart from all others. I did not recognise the fact. I did not read, I never read, the newspapers. So I did not know what was said about me, either favourable or unfavourable. Surrounded by a court of adorers of both sexes, I lived in a sunny dream.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.