Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

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.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.