"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."