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.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

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.

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