Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.