Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.