Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.