Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.