In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.