“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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.