The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.