This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Fate is not in man but around him