Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

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.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.