But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.