Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.