In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.