Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

I never started from ideas but always from character.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.