An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

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

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.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.