It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.