The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer

Things last either too long, or not long enough,

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.