The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

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.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

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