Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

almost all novels are love stories.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.