Talent is nothing but long patience.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.