It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.