It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.