We do not judge the people we love.

• Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
• The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
• One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
• Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
• All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
• Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
• The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.