I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.