Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.