One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

To be simple is no small matter.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.