What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that whi...
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the prece...
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them j...
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with othe...
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other...
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.