“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
