A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.