The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?