“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive. ”

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. ”

“How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

“But the true voyagers are only those who leaveJust to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,They never turn aside from their fatalityAnd without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

“I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.”