One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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?

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.