Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken. - Colette

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us — ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath.

Hay que envejecer terriblemente para renunciar a la vanidad de vivir ante alguien

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.