Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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?
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Please do not understand me too quickly.