This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.