The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.