It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.