Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

Translating is writing.

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.