On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

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

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything