Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.