Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

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

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

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

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.

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.