Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.