If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Never test another man by your own weakness.