What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Love is the only future God offers.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.