I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.