The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.