To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

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.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.