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

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?