There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.