Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude