Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.