The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

The thing thats between us is fascination and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether youre a man or a woman the fascination resides in finding out that were alike.

Fidelity enforced and unto death is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up for someone you want to hold forever tighter and tighter whether hes close or far away someone who becomes dearer to you the more youve sacrificed for his sake.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She cant help it cant help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves as if it were his lover his country his art his land is homosexuality.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants _ to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.