Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.