Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.