If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
When we love - we grow
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.