Discouragement Seizes Us Only When We Can

The Artist Vocation Is To Send Light Into The Human Heart.

I Have An Object, A Task, Let Me Say The Word, A Passion. The Profession Of Writing Is A Violent And Almost Indestructible One.

If They Are Ignorant, They Are Despised, If Learned, Mocked. In Love They Are Reduced To The Status Of Courtesans. As Wives They Are Treated More As Servants Than As Companions. Men Do Not Love Them: They Make Use Of Them, They Exploit Them, And Expect, In That Way, To Make Them Subject To The Law Of Fidelity.

Experience Is Always A Trustworthy Guide; It May Not Tell You Everything, But It Never Lies.

O Heart! Love Is Thy Bane And Thy Antidote.