The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

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.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.