History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.