When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

A brilliant liar; he has total recall.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.