Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."