We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?