Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.