One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all