To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

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.

My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

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

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.