The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!