"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

"[T]he soul of love is the invincible difference of lovers, while its subtle matter is the identity of their desires."

"Le mal de prendre une hypallage pour une découverte, une métaphore pour une démonstration, un vomissement de mots pou…"

"Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of hi…"

"Vous n’avez ni la patience qui tisse les longues vies, ni le sentiment de l’irrégularité, ni le sens de la place la p…"

"We civilizations now know ourselves mortal."

"For the musician, before he has begun his work, all is in readiness so that the operation of his creative spirit may …"

"Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of r…"

"Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear.…"

"An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants."