To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.