I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

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.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.