"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."
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"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 mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."