Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.