It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

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

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness