"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"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."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"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."

"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"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."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."