So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

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

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

Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.