It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.