They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.