1. “Inspiration is needed in geometry just as much as in poetry.”
2. “A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
3. “Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
4. “Ballet is a dance executed by human soul.”
5. “Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”
6. “Habit to us is given from above: it is substitute for happiness.”
7. “Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
8. “Write for pleasure and publish for money.”
9. “Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.”
10. “It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
11. “With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.”
12. “Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral would than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”
13. “Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.”
14. “Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.”
15. “Habit is heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.”
