Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.