What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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.
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.