Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

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.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.