Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.