He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Energy wasted on negative ends.