Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. - Honoré de Balzac

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Pierrette fit comme les gens qui souffrent au delà de leurs forces, elle garda le silence.Ce silence est, pour tous les êtres attaqués, le seul moyen de triompher : il lasse les charges cosaques des envieux, les sauvages escarmouches des ennemis ; il donne une victoire écrasante et complète. Quoi de plus complet que le silence ? Il est absolu, n'est-ce pas une des manières d'être de l'infini ?