It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that weakens me morally while strengthening me ph...
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
No human creature can give orders to love.
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I l...
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight...
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.