In music the passions enjoy themselves.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

You shall become the person you are.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Faith is the path of least resistance.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.