This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.