It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.