You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.