The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!