The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.