There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.