The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
What cannot be said will be wept.
Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!
When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.