The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.