"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"I wish they'd simply accept me as I am."

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."