To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.