Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.