When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

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