If the world were clear, art would not exist.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.