The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

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

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.

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

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.