To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

Finally, and most of all, words failed him.