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.
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.