Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things