What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.