The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.