'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know..

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences..

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see..

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves..

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized..

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured..

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself..

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity..

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes..

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced..

Sin is whatever obscures the soul..

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation..

There is no work of art that is without short cuts..

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company..

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools..

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making….

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desir….

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard..

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling..

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise..

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance..