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

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

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

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.