A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.