The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us