No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.