What makes night within us may leave stars.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.