Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.- Andre Gide
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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 which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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.
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 preceding one.
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
