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

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

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

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.