A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas..

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences..

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more..

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object..

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, fo….

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish..

Love is acting stupid together..

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad..

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing..

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift..

At times I think and at times I am..

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details..

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it wil….

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood..

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be..

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hi….

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall..

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones..

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growi….

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights..