No human creature can give orders to love |
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. |
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? |
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. |
One changes from day to day, and...after a few years have passed one has completely altered. |
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. |
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. |
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. |
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. |
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world |
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. |
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. |
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. |
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. |
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. |