To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

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

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss