And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.