Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.