It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

The only certainty is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.