Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
Eternity: what a waste of time.
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?