I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

We must have a passion in life.