Live As If You Were Eternal.

[...] Marriage Is One Thing, And Love Is Another...you Need To Have A Solid Canvas; Nobody Stops You To Weave The Arabesques.

It Is Not Events And The Things One Sees And Enjoys That Produce Happiness, But A State Of Mind Which Can Endow Events With Its Own Quality, And We Must Hope For The Duration Of This State Rather Than The Recurrence Of Pleasurable Events.

Art Is An Effort To Create, Beside The Real World, A More Humane World.

The Need To Express One's Self In Writing Springs From A Maladjustment Of Life, Or From An Inner Conflict Which The Adolescent (or The Grown Man) Cannot Resolve In Action.

Experience Is Valuable Only When It Has Brought Suffering And When The Suffering Has Left Its Mark Upon Both Body And Mind.