Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

To create is to live twice.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.