I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.