1. “Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.”
2. “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
3. “My soul’s the present shadow of a presence gone.”
4. “My dreams are a stupid refuge, life an umbrella against a thunderbolt.”
5. “If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”
6. “There’s no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
7. “Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.”
8. “Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.”
9. “Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”
10. “The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
11. “Art consists in making others feel what we feel.”
12. “Art lies because it’s social.”
13. “Literature exists because the world isn’t enough.”
14. “It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have the gift for living.”
15. “I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”
16. “One never lives so intensely as when one has bee thinking hard.”
17. “Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.”
18. “Humanitarianism is rude.”
19. “Strength without agility is a mere mass.”
20. “No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
21. “Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.”
22. “My joy is as painful as my pain.”
23. “Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are full of thorns.”
24. “This world is for those who are bon to conquer, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they’re right.”
25. “Life is whatever we conceive it to be.”
26. “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
27. “Every gesture is a revolutionary act.”
28. “Better to dream than to be.”
29. “There’s a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.”
30. “Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”
