... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

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

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.