The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

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

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.