No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.