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

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

No bad man can be a good poet.