An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Without freedom there is no art.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.