One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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?