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?
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.