Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.