If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.