A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

In love there is no status quo.

We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.