Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

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