Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.