One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.