I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?