I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.