Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
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.