The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? - André Gide

— Cveće, istina je, ne hrani čoveka, — govorila je ona — ali ono unosi radost u život. Ako biste od lepih mirisnih bašta napravili vrtove, nema sumnje da biste mi dali da jedem, ali biste u isti mah ubijali volju za život.

Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.